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Re:Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because o... by wjoe on Friday May 27, 2016 @05:12PM (#11789061)
The citizens of those countries. There are many better things Brazil should be spending their money on, and many people living in terrible conditions who they should be helping.

Many countries and cities who have actually asked their people whether they want an Olympics in the last few years have voted no, for example Oslo in Norway and Stockholm in Sweden.

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Re:Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because o... by tajen on Friday May 27, 2016 @05:32PM (#11789191)
IOC would make a fortune if citizen could bribe to avoid hosting the Olympics.
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Re:Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because o... by mathattack on Friday May 27, 2016 @05:27PM (#11789155)
You can make the argument at a lot of places, but Brazil is a democracy. They voted for the candidates who pitched the idea of hosting the Olympics, and it had a mass of popular support.

If the IOC runs out of countries willing to host it, then perhaps the host cities will be able to temper how much they want to spend on it. The Olympics don't have to be so elaborate.

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Re:Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because o... by cmurf on Friday May 27, 2016 @07:51PM (#11789897)
I did not down vote this or the other comment, but I disagree that Brazil is a democracy. It's at best a polyarchy, and is probably just an oligarchy. The voting component is a veneer of democracy to make enough of the citizenry seem essentially complicit with the bad ideas of the leaders.
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Re:Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because o... by vkou on Friday May 27, 2016 @05:32PM (#11789193)
Be it in a democracy or a dictatorship, consent for a special interest is relatively easy to manufacture.
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Re:Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because o... by the_watcher on Friday May 27, 2016 @06:43PM (#11789595)
The IOC won't run out of countries who want to host it so long as countries with rampant corruption exist. The timeline of the Olympics is a corrupt developers wet dream.
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